Full Name
Henning Ludolphs
Job Title
Managing Director, ILS Relations & Resilience Initiatives
Company
Hannover Re
Speaker Bio
Henning Ludolphs joined the Hannover Re Group in 1989. His background is mathematics with secondary subjects computer science and economics.
After a year of training in South Africa, he returned to Germany and focused his career on structured reinsurance transactions.
In 2002 he took over as managing director for the Irish non-life companies, their flag ship carries for structured reinsurance in those days.
2008 Henning moved back to Hannover in Germany. He built up their new insurance-linked securities unit with a focus on the transfer of third-party reinsurance risks to the capital markets and on investing into insurance-linked securities, which both includes life and non-life business.
As of July 1, 2014 he took over responsibility for the new division Retrocessions & Capital Markets. This division is the result of amalgamating the group protections department, responsible for buying retrocessions to protect Hannover Re’s balance sheet, and the insurance-linked securities department. During this time several (incl. first ever) transactions were implemented to transfer cyber risks to capital markets.
With view on his formal retirement date end of 2026, he transferred his leadership responsibilities to his successors on October 1, 2025. He still supports his former teams and in addition gives attention to matters targeting closing the protection gap in developing countries.
After a year of training in South Africa, he returned to Germany and focused his career on structured reinsurance transactions.
In 2002 he took over as managing director for the Irish non-life companies, their flag ship carries for structured reinsurance in those days.
2008 Henning moved back to Hannover in Germany. He built up their new insurance-linked securities unit with a focus on the transfer of third-party reinsurance risks to the capital markets and on investing into insurance-linked securities, which both includes life and non-life business.
As of July 1, 2014 he took over responsibility for the new division Retrocessions & Capital Markets. This division is the result of amalgamating the group protections department, responsible for buying retrocessions to protect Hannover Re’s balance sheet, and the insurance-linked securities department. During this time several (incl. first ever) transactions were implemented to transfer cyber risks to capital markets.
With view on his formal retirement date end of 2026, he transferred his leadership responsibilities to his successors on October 1, 2025. He still supports his former teams and in addition gives attention to matters targeting closing the protection gap in developing countries.
